I spoke to a buyer at Adorama Camera in New York City, NY (http://www.adorama.com/catalog.tpl?op=Contactus) and asked if he would consider contacting your company (Solmeta) in order to purchase your products (the N1 and N2) and sell them from his store and via the Internet. He said that he would look into it and contact your company.
If the negotiations between your company and Adorama are successful, then your products could be sold in the USA from a US vendor. Adorama accepts credit cards and would serve as a middleman so that the manufacturer (Solmeta) and the customers are protected from errors and dissatisfaction.
He said that this process would take a couple of weeks. By the way when will the N2 be ready for sale?
Yes, we will be the best camera gps company in the world. We will release variety products to meet different needs. The two in one adapter will be ready in a month.
To accept credit card payment has been for a problem puzzled me a lot. Here in China to accept foreign currency is restricted by some regulations. So my solution is to find some dealers in USA and Europe. Then you will buy it directly in the States or European countries.
Regards
Bryan
What a nice product!!! And super topic!!! Bryan, just find a solution. I wish you more in the coming years!!!!!
Have you had any contact with Adorama Camera yet? Have any of the buyers written or called you to set up an arrangement to sell your products? Please let me know if they have ignored you. I called them over two weeks ago to make sure that this deal is accomplished. If they have not gotten back to you then I will call one of the owners of Adorama Camera and complain.
I will call Adorama and apply pressure on one of the buyers to contact you and get this deal done. If I don't get the appropriate "yes, sir I'll do this today sir" answer from them, I will call their competition (B&H Photo) in New York City and offer them the same deal. B&H always wants to win in any competition with Adorama. In America setting two rivals against one another to secure a good business deal almost always works.
I obtained the names and phone numbers of the purchasing person at Adorama Camera and the buyer at B&H Camera. Neither of these two gentlemen were at work today. On Monday (6/23) I will start talking seriously to both of them about contacting you to set up a sales agreement. If you get a chance and can reveal the name, please let me know which company in Germany has created a sales agreement with your company.
Bryan,
Am I correct in assuming that the digital photo software comes with the hardware? Is there a manual for the software? I'd like to know how it works with mapping apps such as Google Earth and Google Maps to track locations. Thanks!
Thanks for pointing out the other free software, but...
I'd like to know about the Solmeta software, since it's described in your Web site:
"Our software is a feature-rich and easy-to-use digital photo software that enables photographers to organize, edit and share photos flexibly. With our software, user can create professional Flash or web galleries, geo-tag photos with GPS and send photos to mobile phones as well as publish photo albums to internet. It can locate photos on map, link photos on Google Earth, generate KMZ or KML file, make Google map gallery. It also can manage and view your GPS tracks and waypoints."
Can other Solmeta users please comment on the software, specially linking to Google Earth? Is it packaged with the hardware? Much appreciated, fellas!
I have the Solmeta N2. It works great with the D3 camera.
If you have Apple computer all you need to do is open your image with the "Preview program.
(it comes with OS X) It already has build in capabilities of reading the GPS data off the image.
Just open jpeg, tiff or nef with it. (all of the formats are supported by the Preview program)
and from the Tools menu select Inspector->more info tab (the one in the middle)->GPS.
There is a little map of earth in there but at the bottom there's also a button "Locate" when you click on it
automatically the web browser Safari (or the default browser you have selected) opens with the google maps
showing the location where the picture was taken.
PM me if you'd like to test this and I'll send you a picture with the GPS data embedded so you can play around see
how it work etc.
Well, I ordered an N2 from Nikonians on the 20th of July, and it's still back-ordered. I'm glad to see that your product is popular, but would you please crank out a few before summer's over?
I'm doing mainly botanical photography these days, and having the images automatically geo-tagged would save lots of time.
My N2 arrived yesterday (finally). Looks like a very nice unit. I just read the manual and will be setting the compass up as soon as I get off the computer.
Other than needing to carry two releases (I didn't get the 10-pin splitter), the only problem I see so far is the inability to change the GPS datum. When i contract for various agencies, they require different datum. For instance, the US Forest Service requires I use NAD 27, and the N2 is set to WGS 84. Won't be a problem most of the time, and hopefully, the USFS will join the modern world some day!
Glad to hear you finally got your N2, Timm. I like mine and find the compass heading to be quite good. I also like the way the d300 will show you a real-time position in the rear display. Additionally, I found the unit to be smaller than I was expecting from the pictures, but that's a good thing.
The only issue I have is with altitude, but from what I read, that is an issue with gps in general. An example from last weekend: took a shot in the front parking lot at the Tillamook Cheese factory, and the altitude registered: "5.0m below sea level." To be sure, its not very high there, but I would have liked to see something more like 1-4 meters above sea level.
I don't know what reality is since this is my first gps, but from what I read, being within 50 feet in altitude is about as good as you get. -Art
Yeah, Art, I own several Garmin GPS units and I usually round the altitude to the nearest 50 ft. as that seems to be about as reliable as it gets. Good enough most of the time, but I found it rather discomforting when sailing to look at the GPS and see "-50 ft."!
I'm having trouble getting the compass calibrated. I'll give it another go today. Looks like I need to reset it and try again.
I'm really wishing there was some way to change the coordinate system and datum. For my uses, I prefer WGS 84 and lat-lon DDD MM SS.SS and elevations in feet. The USFS wants NAD 27 and UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) in meters and elevation in meters. If I could change these, I could sell a couple of Garmin units and just carry the camera when working in the field. As is, I'll need to carry a Garmin just so I can get the data the way the client wants it.
